Coating & Surface Treatment Equipment

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. recently built an HL7-A12 box furnace for SunCoast Automation 2000 Inc., which designs and builds automated systems for various industries.

Saint-Gobain Abrasives' Norton brand has introduced Norton Vortex Rapid Finish Non-woven Right Angle Discs for the metal fabricating industry.

Amarillo College, in the Texas panhandle, has installed a Lucifer Furnaces Model HS84 Dual Chamber Furnace in their Manufacturing Technologies Department.

For demanding applications where highly flexible, impact resistant bonds are required, Master Bond developed Polymer System EP37-3FLF.

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. has delivered a large tempering batch oven to a leading East Coast manufacturer of precision grinding equipment.

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. has designed a large heat treating box furnace for a leading provider in the aerospace industry.

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. has supplied a leading ISO 9001 certified analytical testing facility in the Midwest with a model 7000 AM box furnace for stress relieving.

Nanotechnology opens up new coating possibilities and performance.

Don Graham, manager of turning products and education services at Seco Tools Inc., Troy, Mich., discussed "Productivity Improvements Resulting from Coating Texturing" during the Fast Track Seminar series hosted at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS 2010.

Watch a video presentation from Seco Tools LLC about the tools and techniques suggested for machining powdered metallurgy. The company reports that inserts with Seco Tool's Duratomic CVD aluminum-oxide coating can work well for P/M components. The Duratomic technology promotes growth of coating crystals in certain crystallographic directions to improve coating properties.

No. 887 is a gas-fired, 1,000°F cabinet oven from The Grieve Corp., currently used for curing metal coatings onto parts.

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. shipped two dual-chamber atmosphere muffle ovens to a customer for the purpose of heat treating superconducting wire used in medical, pharmaceutical and industrial applications.